Circus Contraption - Hip Hip Hooray lyrics

I heard the distant drum beat A sweet sound of the fife And from this song, a calling A purpose to my life Lift them up and let them see How much they stand again Living by my word, indeed A cut against the grain Like a blinding sense of vision Or a brush fire in the weeds A show to finally end all shows Is what the people need And we sing Hip hip hooray And let your cheers be heard Hip hip hooray And let your soul be stirred Once you get them in the dye You know they're gonna ask for more Hip hip hooray Hip hip hooray Suitable, they say Hip hip hooray P. T. Barnum once said there's a s**er born every I think I can cut the time in half But it is very simple Let the cream rise to the top Skim a little just for taste While tending to the flock I'll change wine back to water Then offer you a drink You can lead a horse to slaughter But you cannot make him think With surgical precision And attention to detail I can build a human empire That will never, never fail Hip hip hooray Leave nothing to chance Hip hip hooray Invision every circumstance No dime museum, no raree show A spectacle as apropos They'll all fall down before they go And they have nowhere left to go Sing hip hip hooray I'll gather them into the pin Rinse, repeat, begin again Nothing is beyond my kin It's my own version of amen Sing hip hip hooray Oh, let me hear it Sing hip hip hooray